With Russia's expansionist war a new security landscape has emerged also in the north, argues professor Njord Wegge. NATO's ...

Russia is developing a fleet of naval icebreakers. But none of them took part in the Northern Fleet's expedition that this fall experienced great difficulties in navigating across the Northern Sea ...

Arctic Council (BEAC) after 2025, the government said Thursday, citing the evolving security situation in Europe.

The northern part of Norway - particularly the county of Finnmark - has seen an increase in the wolf population this year, according to a report by the Norwegian Large Carnivore Monitoring Programme ...

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The illegal intelligence gathering is shared with Russia's foreign intelligence service (SVR) and Iran, according to the ...

The development of military forces across the Nordic region forges ahead with new measures of integration. Following this week's meeting in the Nordic defence cooperation (NORDEFCO), the involved ...

Mortgage rates in Russia began to rise noticeably in the spring of 2024. In early October, the Central Bank allowed Russian banks not to restrain mortgage rates, and a month later Sberbank started ...

"There is no international boycott of Russia. The way I see it, it is important to keep the channels open with regard to environment, also to countries with which we have disagreements such as Russia ...